Russia’s Depopulation Crisis Deepens As Government Writes Off Whole Towns
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Russia’s Depopulation Crisis Deepens As Government Writes Off Whole Towns

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Over the past two years, the abandonment of towns across Russia’s regions has accelerated dramatically. According to official data, 266 populated villages and towns were completely removed from existence across Russia over the past year alone. The year before that, another 306 villages and hamlets ceased to exist. In total, more than 500 populated places have disappeared in just two years—wiped off administrative maps because no one lives there anymore.

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Budapest Rocked By Protests Against the Corruption Of The Russian Backed Orban Regime
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Budapest Rocked By Protests Against the Corruption Of The Russian Backed Orban Regime

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“RESIGN! RESIGN!” echoed through central Budapest yesterday as tens of thousands of Hungarians flooded the streets, their chants cutting through the city in a rare and visceral display of public fury. What began as outrage over a new and deeply disturbing child abuse scandal has rapidly evolved into something broader: a mass indictment of corruption, impunity, and institutional decay under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s long-entrenched rule.

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Russia’s Famed S-400 Air Defense Systems Rely On U.S. Technology
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Russia’s Famed S-400 Air Defense Systems Rely On US Technology

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Despite decades of Kremlin claims that its weapons are wholly “indigenous,” a newly released report exposes a stark and strategic vulnerability at the heart of Russia’s flagship air defense system — the S-400 Triumf. Far from being a self-sufficient technological marvel, the system depends on microelectronics and materials sourced from outside Russia, including components rooted in U.S. manufacturing and design, highlighting a critical fragility in Moscow’s military industrial base.

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Putin Regime Raises Taxes on Population Up to 50% to Pay for War
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Putin Regime Raises Taxes on Population Up to 50% to Pay for War

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Adding to the blistering pace of new taxes on the Russian population which has seen tarrifs on automobiles hiked over 300%, Russia has entered a new phase of economic extraction as the Kremlin deepens its wartime spending. From July 1, 2025, taxes for housing and communal services across the country have risen by as much as 50% this year in some regions. In some regions, increases now approach — and even surpass — 50%, marking one of the steepest public cost hikes of Putin’s rule.

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Putin’s lead “negotiator” Kirill Dmitriev is no stranger to robbing Ukraine
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Putin’s lead “negotiator” Kirill Dmitriev is no stranger to robbing Ukraine

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Kirill Dmitriev — the Kremlin’s polished salesman sent to push Moscow’s “peace plan” onto the West — is no stranger to selling illusions. In Ukraine, his name is tied not to diplomacy, but to one of the most brazen and painful real-estate failures in Kyiv’s modern history: the Olympic Park project, a development that investors now describe as a textbook scam which left over 200 families cheated, abandoned, and financially wrecked.

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Despite Centuries of Trying, Russia Still Can’t Genocide Buryatia
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Despite Centuries of Trying, Russia Still Can’t Genocide Buryatia

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Russia has spent hundreds of years trying to erase Buryatia — through conquest, forced assimilation, destruction of religious institutions, targeted executions of its intellectual class, and, more recently, the quiet suffocation of its cultural production. Yet despite this long, deliberate campaign of erasure, Buryatia persists. And nowhere is this struggle clearer than in the repeated attempts to suppress Buryat cinema. For the Buryat people —

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Former Press Secretary For Putin’s “Nashi” Group Worked For Jeffrey Epstein
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Former Press Secretary For Putin’s “Nashi” Group Worked For Jeffrey Epstein

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Maria Drokova, a former press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi,” worked within Jeffrey Epstein’s public-relations network in the years before his final arrest, according to a new investigation by the British outlet Byline Times. The report adds an unexpected Russian dimension to the long-running scrutiny of Epstein’s circle, detailing how Drokova and a colleague helped manage the financier’s media strategy during 2017 and 2018.

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Collapsing Russian oil industry delivering windfall profits to Western oil majors
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Collapsing Russian oil industry delivering windfall profits to Western oil majors

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Ukraine’s precision strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure — combined with tightening Western sanctions — are crippling the Kremlin’s energy sector and unexpectedly enriching Western oil companies. Since mid-2025, Ukrainian drones have hit nearly 160 oil extraction and refining facilities across Russia, including key refineries and export terminals.Each strike has deepened the supply crunch inside Russia and reduced its ability to export fuel.

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